A Dorchester man charged with robbing a Weymouth meat market at gunpoint told officers that he needed money to settle a drug debt, according to a police report.

Meanwhile, a Brockton man who is also wanted for the robbery at Previte’s Marketplace was still at large Monday night and considered armed and dangerous, police in Weymouth and Hingham said. The man is also accused of carjacking an 85-year-old woman in a senior citizens residential community in Hingham.

Angelo J. Ayuso, 26, of Bowdoin Street in Dorchester, pleaded innocent to charges of armed robbery while masked and several firearm offenses at his arraignment Monday in Quincy District Court. He was held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing scheduled for Thursday.

Ayuso was arrested at the Queen Anne’s Gate apartment complex near the market shortly after the robbery Friday.

Weymouth and Hingham police on Monday identified the second suspect in the robbery as Jerry Anitus, 20, of Brockton. The departments obtained arrest warrants for him on charges including armed robbery while masked, breaking and entering, carjacking and assault.

Anyone with information on Anitus’ whereabouts is asked to contact police.

“He would be considered armed and dangerous,” Hingham police Sgt. Steven Dearth said. “Many agencies are looking for him now. He’s being aggressively sought.”

Police responded to a report that two men robbed the market, which is in Weymouth on Route 53 near the Hingham line, at about 3:20 p.m. Friday. Witnesses said both men were armed with handguns, according to a police report on file in Quincy District Court. Weymouth schools were locked down as a precaution.

Officers found Ayuso coming out of a wooded area by a nearby apartment complex and arrested him, Weymouth police Capt. Richard Fuller said. Officers found the stolen money and a .38-caliber revolver in the woods near where Ayuso was arrested, police said. They did not find a second weapon.

Anitus broke into an apartment in an attempt to hide, but the owner was home and he ran back outside, Fuller said. From there, he jumped a fence to the Linden Ponds nursing home and senior citizens residence next door, where he pulled an 85-year-old woman from her car and threw her to the ground, Dearth said.

The woman was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was treated and released over the weekend, Dearth said.

Ayuso admitted to committing the robbery during questioning by officers, according to the police report.

“He (Ayuso) stated that he had a drug problem and that he owed his drug dealer money that needed to be paid,” Weymouth police Detective David Galvin wrote in the report.

Ayuso’s court-appointed attorney, John Brinkman of Quincy, did not return a call seeking comment Monday afternoon.

Page 2 of 2 - During questioning, Ayuso also admitted that Anitus was the second man who robbed the market, Galvin wrote in the report.

Fuller said police believe a third person may have been waiting in a getaway car in the apartment complex’s parking lot, but left before Ayuso and Anitus reached the vehicle.

Ayuso has a “significant” criminal record and has been arrested and jailed “many times,” Galvin wrote in the report.

Anitus was a suspect in several recent robberies in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, according to the report.

In 2010, Anitus was arrested in Quincy and charged with carrying a loaded .380-caliber handgun without a license. The outcome of that case was not available Monday afternoon.

An employee at Previte’s on Monday evening referred questions to the owners, who weren’t there.

The market posted a note on its Facebook page saying none of the employees or customers in the store at the time of the robbery were hurt and thanked customers for their support.

“We are very lucky and blessed to have such quick thinking employees,” the post reads. “We had guardian angels that day and we appreciate all of you reaching out to us.”